For a long time, nobody has really known how the Cuban blue-headed quail dove arrived on the island. But now, […] ...

On first inspection, the Cuban blue-headed quail dove doesn't look like much: drab brown feathers, a slender beak, and a pronounced strut in its walk, typical of most other doves. You'd be ...

Bob DeGross / NPS Carla Dove, head of the National Museum of Natural History’s Feather Identification Lab, is working on a mystery. Surrounded by racks of embalmed birds in jars, she digs ...

Dove is the manager of the Feather Identification Lab at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. She and her staff identify the types of birds that ...